Video #34: All the Sights I've Seen (REM / Utena)

I made two videos in a row that start with "all" and didn't notice it until I started posting listings. Ha.

Title: All the Sights I've Seen
Song: REM, "The Great Beyond"
Anime: Revolutionary Girl Utena (moderately spoilery)
Genre: Romance, uplifting drama, symbolism jamboree

Links: YouTube (probably won't last long) / Org / Direct (XviD AVI, same as the org)

Several years ago, I made a short version of this video for a multi-editor project. After the remastered box set was released, I bandied about a bunch of ideas and played around with a couple of them. This one seemed to feel right. It gets at some aspects of the series that I love, but hadn't approached in AMV projects before - particularly Utena's absolute determination and the way that her resolve echoes through the rest of the cast. (And, well, Utena's character overall. Most of my other vids were about side characters/plots.)

My last video actually marked the point at which I'd been making AMVs for 10 years, but a) I think I didn't realize that at the time, and b) it would seem weird to tag a goofy video with a note like that. So I marked this one instead.

Viewed from the org, I haven't made a dramatic AMV since 2006, but I did make a dramatic Avatar: The Last Airbender fanvid in 2011. So it hasn't been that long.

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